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Melissa of the Hills
Overview
Melissa Stark, a young girl in the Tennessee mountains tries to unite feuding families (Allisons & Watts) and help her preacher father, Jethro, while navigating romance with lawyer Tom Williams and a mistaken identity crisis that leads to her father's tragic death, after which the families reconcile. The story involves a newspaper ad for a dress, a mistaken identification of Jethro as a murder fugitive by a deputy sheriff, and a violent confrontation that ends with Jethro's innocence proven but his life lost.
Director and cast
- Mary Miles Minter as Melissa Stark
- Spottiswoode Aitken as Jethro Stark
- Allan Forrest as Tom Williams
- George Periolat as Cyrus Kimball
- John Gough as Larry Watts
- Anne Schaefer as Sally Smith
- Perry Banks as Dr. Brand
- Gertrude Le Brandt as Mrs. Sanders
- Harry Clark as Cutler Sanders
- Frank Thompson as Sam Allison
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